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Fig. 4. Dorsal spine of adult female. X 140. 

 Fig. 5. Dermis of adult female (dorsal). X 600. 

 Fig. 6. Dermis of adult female (ventral). X 600. 

 Fig. 7. Marginal spines of adult female. X 300. 

 Fig. 7 a. Stigmatic spines of adult female. X 300. 



PULVINARIA FLOCCIFERA (Westwood). 



(PI. XL VIII, figs. 1-10.) 



Coccus flocciferus, Westwood; Gardener's Chronicle, 



1870, p. 308, fig. 52. 

 Pulvinaria camellicola, Signoret ; Essai, p. 208, pi. 



ii, figs. 4 and 6 (1872). 

 Pulvinaria phaise (Lull), King; Entomological News, 



1891, p. 311. 

 Pulvinaria brasside (Ckll.), King; I. c. 



Adult female in life (fig. 2) distinctly cordate, but 

 becoming much wrinkled after gestation. Colour pale 

 yellow, lower half of body mottled with reddish brown, 

 or brightly ochreous ; after parturition the colour 

 usually changes to dusky ochreous. After treatment 

 with potash (fig. 3) the form is more ovate. Antenna? 

 (fig. 6) usually of eight joints, but some examples occur 

 with only seven (fig. 6 a). Formula of eight- jointed 

 antenna 3, 2, 4, 5, 8 (1, 6, 7), of which the first four 

 are the longest, and the sixth and seventh joints the 

 shortest ; there are one long and one short hair on the 

 second and fifth, one shorter one on the sixth and 

 seventh, and several on the apical joint. Legs (fig. 7) 

 about one third longer than the antennae, very strong, 

 with two or three short hairs on the coxa, a very 

 long one on the trochanter, and several short ones on 

 the femur, tibia, and tarsus ; digitules to claw very 

 long, broad, and dilated at apex ; those of the tarsus 

 scarcely longer, and faintly clubbed. Marginal hairs 

 (fig. 8) simple and very slender; stigmatic spines 

 (fig. 8) arranged in a triangle; the two inner ones, 

 short, broad, and obtuse, are about half the length of 



